Anyone rit dye dark gray g10 yet?

[Trvrdgr1234]

I just placed an order for the Para 3 in maxamet, now I am thinking how nice it would look with maroon/burgundy scales

I've never dyed scales before and the gray seems relatively dark so I figured I see about anyone else's experience good or bad

Thanks

 

[JLeBlanc]

I have not actually tried rit dyeing G-10, but my understanding is that lighter (original) colors do best, while darker colors are more challenging. Although, if you're going for a maroon/burgundy, perhaps that is within the range of possibilities with a gray starting color? The "maxamet gray" is a rather dark gray though, darker than say, the "cruwear gray."

 

[115Italian]

That grey is pretty dark but if your going to try for a dark maroon it may still work. I dyed a desert tan emerson. I was going for brown. I wanted a dark brown but ended up at with a dark greyish brown. It still looked good but wasnt the exact color I wanted. If you do it, go into it with no exact expectations.

Clean the scales before with dish soap.

 

[Trvrdgr1234]

That grey is pretty dark but if your going to try for a dark maroon it may still work. I dyed a desert tan emerson. I was going for brown. I wanted a dark brown but ended up at with a dark greyish brown. It still looked good but wasnt the exact color I wanted. If you do it, go into it with no exact expectations.

Clean the scales before with dish soap.

Yeah I will be okay with a pretty big range of color I just want some thing a bit more then grey for such an interesting steel

Is yours holding up well without wearing out?

Thanks I hadn't given any thought to pre cleaning yet some dawn should knock out any oil res

I have not actually tried rit dyeing G-10, but my understanding is that lighter (original) colors do best, while darker colors are more challenging. Although, if you're going for a maroon/burgundy, perhaps that is within the range of possibilities with a gray starting color? The "maxamet gray" is a rather dark gray though, darker than say, the "cruwear gray."

Yeah that's what I'm hoping for and hopefully it wouldn't just go strait to black because I would be dying and dark color with a dark dye

 

[Trvrdgr1234]

Didnt go so well lol

Got some micarta for it